This last weekend has been really hectic. So busy that I didn’t even have time to put together a Weekend Edition. It was so busy because I had decided a week ago to take on a Do It Yourself project here at my house.

It started on Friday after work at about 5 o’clock. My wife and I pulled up all the carpet in the front room, which didn’t take too long until we got to the carpet pad underneath. Whoever put pad in went to town with the staple gun. We didn’t finish ripping everything out until about 10 o’clock the same evening, but at least it was all out for the next morning.

I started Saturday at about 7:30 a.m. pulling up a small section of linoleum. At this point everything was ready to start laying the new laminate flooring. Two of my friends from work came over to help which was fantastic because things went so much faster. We ended up getting almost the whole floor layed except for two very small hallways which shouldn’t take too much longer to finish. I’ll have a few pictures later once the project is finished, but the new floor looks really slick.

I will say that it was so nice to have people willing to come and help out. It makes such a huge difference to have multiple people able to work on multiple things at a time. I also had other people lend me some of their saws and other tools. I was very impressed again with the willingness of those people.

I’m also excited that it didn’t take as much flooring as I had originally anticipated. I ended up buying quite a bit more than what was needed so I will be able to take it back and get reimbursed. As you know, it’s always nice to get money coming back to you than going away. Hopefully the new floor will help with the sale of the house, since that’s more or less the intention of the whole project.

 Subscribe to Fiscal Musings | Digg This! | Stumble it!